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FarmVille Freak Techie: Was FarmVille Hacked?! Beware of “Ekşın Man”
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Tonight, FarmVille Freaks were reporting that they were getting images of an unknown name posting on their feed over and over. Are these posts from a hacker? Has FarmVille gotten hacked into?
Be sure to take our FarmVille Freak Poll below to let us know whether your FarmVille may or may not be hacked!
Tonight I logged onto facebook to find tons of posts by a guy named Edwin who was posting under the Farmville posts. I have attached a screenshot to show you. The forums are going wild! Do you have any info on this?
- FarmVille Freak Talisha
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:23 pm
lol dont really care as long as i get to farm still(:
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:25 pm
yes i got the messages and then blocked them cause i thought they were to weird seeing as how i know no one by that name and from that country
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:25 pm
I had the 2 posts you showed & so did 1 of my daughters. What the heck, and do I need to worry???
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:25 pm
Very weird, I hope this doesn’t effect the updates later!
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:26 pm
I was hacked. I blocked him and that took care of it. I hope.
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:26 pm
I, and, several of my friends had same messages. Very Very odd indeed. I reported to Facebook and Zynga. But, the odd thing really is…they are now gone from my wall. And, stranger still…I have a lot of privacy blocks on my wall, so, the fact that this got thru really tells that it had to be a Zynga or FarmVille hack. Very strange.
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:26 pm
yup he was on mine and several friends posts too, don’t notice anything done anywhere from him…. yet
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:26 pm
I seen this too..should I worry???
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:26 pm
I did see this and tried 2 block him but it would not let me. Then A few minutes later it was gone???
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:27 pm
It disappeared a little while ago. Very strange indeed.
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:28 pm
i want this off. its gone now and cant fibnd iyt but inwamt it gone
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:28 pm
I do not know! Farmville was very very slow! And I could not send gift early! but it cleared up by mid morning!
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:29 pm
yep- i had it. But every time I tried to block him FB kept telling me the block feature was busy and to try again later =\
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:29 pm
I had posts from him on my feed also. I changed my password right away, logged off and back on and all his posts were gone.
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:29 pm
I was on today and then I started getting chat windows from people I know with a BLUE LINK to click on saying “ha ha ha photo” I asked friends they came from and they had no idea I have since then changed my password and email password!! My account was hacked the end of last year and was a major mess for family and friends so I don’t wait to change passwords anymore!! This thing today really upsets me that people have NOTHING better to do then hack websites and people’s accounts!!
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:30 pm
@ H you better worry when a hacker gets in, and your farm will be the last thing you think about I assure you when he gets your info and does something stupid with it. Its something we all should be aware of .this isnt the first one wont be the last one.
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Maybe you mean rogue instead of rouge (rouge means red, or blush)!
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Yes i saw these – tried to block him and got a message that blocking was on overload and to try later so I sent a notice to Facebook. Hope they stopped this.
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:30 pm
The hacker made everthing very slow……..and then was gone…poof!
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:30 pm
YES IT WAS LIKE ,A STRAY CAT ,IT CREPT IN ,CRAPPED ,AND CREPT OUT AGAIN ,xxx
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
It was also on mine also.. what do we do??? .. I reported it as spam
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
I actually saw this name through Zynga Texas Hold’em, so it’s not just FV. I blocked him immediately.
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
I have high security settings on mine too. Now I’m starting to really worry !!!
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
I got this too! I asked everyone and most saw the same thing. Please let us know what’s going on, I searched that name up and only one guy showed up with a FB account, I tried to block him and it would not let me do it. I says my block list is overloaded…? Help!
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:31 pm
SI ME APARECIO Y SE ME HIZO MUY RARO ESPERO QUE NO AFECTE MI COMPUTADORA DE HECHO ME APARECIERON MESAJES DEBO DE PREOCUPARME??????
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:32 pm
I don’t know what happened, but when I logged into my farm this morning, my Cupid’s Castle was morphed into a GIANT Cupid’s Castle. I just figured it was a FV glitch. Don’t know if it had anything to do with a hacker. I captured a picture of my farm with the huge castle on it.
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:33 pm
I got that, maybe 6 or 7 hours ago, I skimmed back through, but don’t see it anymore.
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:33 pm
When he posted on my feed, I asked who he was, and why was he on my feed. Immediately I began warning my friends to change their password. I had trouble trying to access my “Account” but kept trying. I changed my password, logged out, and when I logged back in, his comments had disappeared. This was not only scary, it was very strange.
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:33 pm
I kept reporting it as spam still showed up then blocked him as unknown and finally disappeared weird something needs to be done. Not just one time but several times this happened
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:34 pm
wow
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:35 pm
I had it also but thru zygna poker – i think zygna got hacked!!!!
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:36 pm
Jan, it is a farmville glitch. a lot of people have reported this happening. it happened to me today, but when i got back on later, it was back to normal size. they just need to iron things out a bit
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:37 pm
I think its possible with charles
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:37 pm
Jan Vanderford Says:
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:32 pm
I don’t know what happened, but when I logged into my farm this morning, my Cupid’s Castle was morphed into a GIANT Cupid’s Castle. I just figured it was a FV glitch. Don’t know if it had anything to do with a hacker. I captured a picture of my farm with the huge castle on it.
Mine has been doing the same thing since it came out. Some days it is huge, other days it is normal sized.
Just a FV glitch not the hacker.
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:37 pm
saw it, ignored it, can’t find it now ; to hide it.
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:38 pm
I had the chats pop up with the ha ha foto link from a friend who didn’t appear to be on line at the time but I don’t click on any of those so I’m not too worried about it at this point. Collecting gifts was very slow this morning but cleared up by afternoon.
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:39 pm
The hacker or they thinks they are Zygna you must know about this creep dump him Please
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:41 pm
Saw them. Reported as spam. They disappeared and then came back. Blocked them and I swear they came back once, but I could be wrong there. Now they are gone. My privacy is tight so I don’t see how they got on my wall without some sort of hack into FV or FB. No harm can come from seeing a wall post as far as I know so not worried.
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:41 pm
To Jan Vanderford……..my castle has done the same thing a few times, and my snowman does the reverse…he gets super tiny….I take pics of them for fun. It’s just a glitch, I’m going to complain to Farmville if I don’t go into Valentine overload, “the bigger the castle the more the reward”!
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:41 pm
I got a gift request from unregistered user in the pop up for farm gift requesst I hit ignore strange
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:46 pm
yes i got the messages and then blocked them cause i thought they were to weird seeing as how i know no one by that name and from that country
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:47 pm
Had it twice. Different messages…one telling me he was from Turkey, not a friend and not to worry. one saying to “be relax”. I clicked off the posts and went to block him. Found two ppl going by Eskin Man. Said the server was busy but checked back and at least one is now blocked. sheesh.
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:48 pm
i also got the posts and reported it as spam and it was gone then a couple hours later it was back so i reported it again but i had to remove the post but i am sure it will be back
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:52 pm
He only showed up once on my page. Then disappearedI .Reported as spam since blocking was on overload it said.I also emailed Farmville. I clicked the via farvile and itr went to farmville.com.
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:53 pm
I never saw it and veture to say neither did any of my friends. A good portion of them keep up with me and ask me about everything FV. LOL they know i dont have a life! I would have been asked about it if it had happened over here…was it a regional thing?
**side note…we all KNOW what FVF meant by “rouge” sheesh!!! get over the typos people! Bekuz i see lots of them all over the postings here and on FB. Is it really that serious???
anywho, it would be nice if Zynga or FB would address this and let us know what it really was. Was he just showing he could do it? Or did he do something while he was “in there”…? Im also thinking that the reason why some couldnt “block” him is because so many people were hit at the same time, EVERYONE was blocking at that exact moment.
QUESTION…does anyone remember his profile pix??? i only found a guy with tht name with a pic of him drinkin a beer…wanna know if thats him. thanks! FARMVILLE FOR LIFE! bekuz i dont have one! hahahahhahaa
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:53 pm
This is starting to bug me im worried about my personal things on my computer farmville isnt that important to me right now what about identity theft. I sure hope they can track this guy and find out who he is. now i have to keep a eye on all my stuff and goint to contact my bank tomorrow and other places i use to keep a eye out for strange activity
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:54 pm
changed my password
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:54 pm
wow,, glad i missed it,,lol,, or should i say ,, it missed me
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 8:57 pm
I think we should each be compensated with 100,000,000,000,000 FV$ for the hassle
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 9:05 pm
yep- i had it. But every time I tried to block him FB kept telling me the block feature was busy and to try again later. i also have strong privacy in place and a strong password, what gives, this eskin said he wasn’t here to hack anyone’s account buy just wanted to say hi and happy gaming,
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 9:06 pm
also for the last few hours i couldn’t leave comments or block this person, fb was acting weird
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 9:07 pm
ok, did any of you check out his account while it was visible? he’s a beta tester for facebook, and he may be testing some features linked to farmville, like the ‘post to active players’ thing, that’s why his post showed in almost every FV player news feed, because the posts were made via the FV account, you don’t need to worry about changing your password or your account being hacked
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 9:07 pm
I had both of those posts on my feed also. I reported them and blocked them. If the CEO of Facebook can get hacked, which he did today so can we!
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 9:17 pm
I sent and my girls set White Apple Trees..got a conf. and everything..none..well one went through !! Been happening !!!
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 9:19 pm
Eskin is translated to mean sour in English…. so I’m wondering
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 9:30 pm
I too got those messages and tried to block him but was unable too…l went and changed my password…again…and when I went back…the posts were gone…scary
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 9:41 pm
This is no suprise as it has been happening to a few of my friends and I for about 1 month now. Messages are being sent to peoples accounts from their friends but the problem is non of these people are responsible. An ad for diet pills was sent out to a lot of my facebook friends but I never sent it. I reported it but never heard anything back. Should we worry? Why not, if they can hack into banks and big businesses then why not Facebook? Just becareful of what you open and allow access to your information, NO system is fullproof.
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 10:08 pm
its a Farmville Evil Spirit!!! because zynga is too evil right now, infested by bad spirits because of greed of FV cash on their items and fooling a lot of people about the expansion that should be release by new year!!
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 10:12 pm
Does anyone think this could be what the podcast was referring to??
“Now for the coming soon segment this week, we have a very special guest named Charlie. He is here to share some news with everyone about our latest upcoming feature.
[“Good Afternoon, Farmers! Soon you will experience a new and exciting way to play your favorite game. We’re sure it’s going to be a jolly good adventure so make sure to keep an eye on your farm this week for some very exciting foreign news!”]
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 10:24 pm
#40 Good point I never thought of that!
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 10:56 pm
Everyone, no worries, his account on Facebook has been removed!!
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 10:57 pm
Should we worry over this or is it a scam? I do not know what it actually is. I too have all kinds of blockers and virus protection on my computer so it worries me some!
ADVICE???
Thanks peeps!
Keep on Farming
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 11:12 pm
- that not effect any problem
- friend still can visit friend farm that not a nabour (but tht visited farm must be facebook friend)
- i know 3 way to get in facebook friend that not my nebour.
Posted on January 25th, 2011 at 11:42 pm
my fb was hacked…cannot access it for over a week… i have lost my farm too since this was the only way to access it….
Posted on January 26th, 2011 at 3:26 am
Hahaha! He must have not gotten the unicorn in mystery game!!!
Posted on January 26th, 2011 at 3:53 am
At my farm in my giftbox in a mysterious way 24 of my MysterieGifts disappeared an d for a while I did not wear anything else then UNDERWEAR ???!?!?!
A white set ? Never seen that before ?! Check website link
!
Posted on January 26th, 2011 at 6:04 am
yes the hacker hacked both FaceBook nd Farmville
that simply means that he can hack our FARMS too…Zynga what are you doing….?????
Posted on January 26th, 2011 at 6:59 am
@ Krystal (post no. 15). Don’t ever use the Chat feature on Facebook. It’s not at all secure, and is the easiest doorway through which people hack into your account. Disable the chat function and talk to people via MSN or Yahoo (also not foolproof I know, but more secure than the third party IM software used by Facebook).
Posted on January 26th, 2011 at 7:29 am
I had both messages. There were two with that ID – I blocked one, but the other message said “please wait a few minutes and try again”. I tried again this morning. Now there are **4** people with that name and it’s still too busy to accept my blocks.
Something isn’t right.
Posted on January 26th, 2011 at 9:00 am
I have noticed that last night. I was puzzled. But this morning, it’s gone now. Thank god, the hacker is gone. I know this hacker isn’t on my neighbor.
Posted on January 26th, 2011 at 9:32 am
He has hacked Zynga itself, I think! I got a post this morning from him originating from Zynga Poker!!
Posted on January 26th, 2011 at 11:03 am
i’m from turkey but haven’t seen this post yet..
by the way, ‘ekşın’ meaningless in Turkish.. it’s just pronounce of ‘action’ in turkish, so his name is ‘action man’
Posted on January 26th, 2011 at 11:29 am
that guy is a f***** idiot stay the f off fv
Posted on January 26th, 2011 at 1:59 pm
i had both of his post on my page. it was after one of my friends asked him if he hacked in fv when he sent the last post. none of us were able to block him and all of our comments and post to him and each other magically disappeared with in a few minutes after this. i know several people including myself that had a lot of weird things happening to there info. on fb late last night after this.
Posted on January 26th, 2011 at 3:59 pm
Ekşın Man = Action Man
“Ekşın” is pronunciation of “Action” in Turkish.
Posted on January 26th, 2011 at 9:30 pm
that guy hacked me!!!!!!!!! he got on my farmville and deleted all my things!!!!!!!!!
Posted on January 26th, 2011 at 11:30 pm
I Saw That And Was About To Tell THem If There Was A Gitch
Lucky I Didn’t
Posted on January 27th, 2011 at 9:23 am
Hey guys, don’t worry.
Your accounts are safe, we didn’t do anythink for harm anybody.
We mailed zyna and sad ” your game is not safe ” and the didn’t care.
And this is the way to show Zyna, ” Make safer games “
Posted on August 15th, 2011 at 8:41 am
zynga sucks is name every sheep i make…good job Sour,,,the facebbok security guy looks more threatening to me,,,he friend you without your knowing and then sends chat messages to your friends..
(vulgarities deleted in english LOL)
linux=no viruses but hacks are prevented with strong passwords different than your email and always log in as a https: especially your bookmark, also get text if logged in from different location/computer !!! however you all can not control what zynga/facebook does, 3 new friends is all it takes to get your account your facebook account, so to be safest know your adds!
zynga adı i her koyun … iyi iş Ekşi berbat, facebbok güvenlik adam bana daha tehdit edici görünüyor, o bilmeden, dost ve arkadaşlarınıza mesaj sohbet gönderir ..
eşek kadar siz ve anne lanet
Linux = hiçbir virüs ama kesmek için e-posta daha farklı ve her zaman bir https:especially Yer imi olarak oturum güçlü şifreler ile önlenebilir, ancak zynga / facebook ne kontrol edemez, 3 yeni arkadaşlar hesabı almak için gereken tüm facebook hesabı, bu nedenle sizin ekler biliyorum güvenli olması için!
Posted on April 6th, 2012 at 10:53 am
HOW DO I GET HIM OFF MY FACEBOOK PAGE WHEN JUST A SILHOUETTE,APPEARS AND I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING TO DELETE HIM